No life lost as tanker explodes at a filing station

No life was lost when a fuel-laden tanker caught fire while discharging its content at a fuel filing station in the Lokogoma phase 1 area of Lokoja, Kogi State.

It was gathered that the incident, which happened around 3 pm on Thursday, February 8, however, left one person with burnt injury.

An eyewitness who spoke with newsmen said: “We saw dark smoke billowing at the filling station shortly after the tanker entered into the filling station.

Initially, we thought that it was the filling station that caught fire but on getting there, we noticed that it was the tanker that was on fire.

In the process of trying to put out the fire, the explosion hit the director of the fuel station, burning a part of his body in the process.”